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New Paltz Historical Society Presents: Susan Ingalls Lewis on Martha Gruening, Humanitarian Reformer In-Person
Join us on Monday September 29th in the Steinberg Room at 7pm for the next program in Elting Memorial Library's partnership with New Paltz Historical Society. We will be joined by Susan Ingalls Lewis for a lecture on Martha Gruening.
MARTHA GRUENING: Humanitarian reformer
MARTHA GRUENING: Humanitarian reformer
Martha Gruening (1889-1937), the daughter of a German-Jewish immigrant, was a suffragist, journalist, labor activist, lawyer, pacifist, poet and passionate advocate for racial justice who tried to do it all. After rejecting the suffrage movement because of its racism, she worked for the NAACP as a contributor to its magazine, THE CRISIS, for which she investigated the World War I race riots in Houston and St. Louis. Gruening was absolutely committed to racial equality and adopted an African American boy (with mixed results for them both). Locally, she purchased the Gomez Mill House in Marlboro in 1918 hoping to create a progressive inter-racial school, which appears never to have opened. As with much of her life’s work, Gruening was more idealistic than effective.
Susan Ingalls Lewis is Professor Emerita, Department of History, SUNY New Paltz. In retirement, she continues to research, write, lecture, and publish in the field of women's history.
- Date:
- Monday, September 29, 2025
- Time:
- 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Steinberg Reading Room
- Campus:
- Elting Memorial Library
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Adult Programs Outside Organization Event